BBait - A packed meal.Bank - The surface or above ground.Brattice - Screens used to direct currents
of air in the mine.Buzzer - Electrical signalling or warning
device.

CCage - Lift in which men travelled down
the mine-shaft.Canch - Stone that is above or below a seam
of coal that has to be removed to get at the coal.Cavil - A working area which has been drawn
for by lots.Chummins - An empty tub.Clarts - Sticky mud.Cracket - Small stool used by miners to
rest on when hewing coal.

DDad - To beat the coal dust and dirt from
work clothes.Deputy - An underground official responsible
for the management and safety of a district in the pit.Dreg - A wooden or metal stick put between
the spokes of a wheel to act as a brake.

HHand Putter - A man who puts or pushes the
full tubs from the hewer to the onsetter.Hewer - A miner who actually cuts the coal.Hoggers - Shorts worn by miners underground.Horse-keeper - A man who looks after the
pit ponies underground.Hoy - To throw.Hunkers or hunkering - Sitting on the backs
of your legs and heels.

IIn-bye - Travelling from the shaft bottom into the mine workings

KKeps - A rest or block on which the cage
is held to prevent it moving.Kist - A chest or the Deputies' office underground
often used as an assembly point for men to find out where they will be working.

LLimmers - Wooden shafts which could be attached
to a coal tub and to the pit pony's harness.

MMarra - A work colleague; an equal.

OOnsetter - A man who works at the bottom
of the shaft taking the empty tubs out and putting the full tubs of coal
in the cage travelling back from the mine workings to the shaft bottom.Out-bye - Travelling back from the mine
workings to the shaft bottom.

PPitmatic - Language used by miners both
above and below ground.Pony Putter - A man who uses a pony to pull
the tubs to coal to the onsetter.

SScreens - A noisy dirty job on the surface
where young boys, usually straight from school, had to sort out the stone
from the coal.Scumfished - To feel suffocated.Shaft - Vertical access to the mine.

TToken - A miners identity disc or a tally.Trapper Boy - In the 19th century very young
children were employed to open and shut ventilation doors underground. Often
they had to sit in the dark for many hours.Tub - A container for carrying coals

WWinding Men - Men who raised and lowered
the cages down the shaft.

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